Dave Nevison's horse racing tips: My best bets for Friday

1.00 Market Rasen: Donladd

This modest eight-year-old looks to have a lot in his favour here.

Donladd is bred to be a decent chaser and ran well enough on his second start in this discipline last time to suggest he might win a race or two over fences. That latest run was his first after a breathing operation too and he might come on for it.

Donladd won off a higher mark than this over hurdles last season and the opposition here is both weak and largely out of form.

It goes without saying the Donald McCain yard is in terrific form, having hit 100 winners for the season earlier this week.

1.30 Market Rasen: Le Grand Lion

The signs are now good for Le Grand Lion, who only got raised 2lbs for victory last time.

He certainly seemed to relish this staying distance on that occasion and he really knuckled down to win by outstaying and outbattling runner-up Flexi Furlough. He disappointed on his sole other try at three miles at the start of the season, but it’s possible he needed the race after an eight-month break on heavy ground.

The cheekpieces that were applied last time are on again and Ben Pauling had a winner for us on Wednesday, so I am happy with the stable form.

2.05 Market Rasen: Angels Landing

I haven’t had a winner yet this season from backing a couple of juveniles in handicap hurdles, but it definitely looks a good move putting Angels Landing in here off bottom-weight against modest opposition.

The handicapper seems to have taken a very lenient view of her two runner-up efforts this term, giving her a mark of just 97 for this handicap debut (her latest conqueror Dr T J Eckleburg is an outsider for the Boodles).

I imagine Angels Landing will be ridden prominently at a track that favours such tactics and, providing the ground doesn’t shift to bottomless here - which did for her in Listed company at Aintree last month - her light weight can tell against these.